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from great Italian film director, tr A Cangogni

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Rosana is the only newcomer artist in Spain who has ever reached double platinum in two months. Her album, Lunas rotas, has remained, month after month, in the #1 spot of the charts. In this book she compiles her wondeful songs, always full of tenderness and love.

Description in Spanish: Rosana Arbelo es una cantautora canaria que se dio a conocer comercialmente en 1996 con su primer álbum, Lunas rotas, que ha vendido ya más de un millón de copias en España. Para sus fans, Rosana se ha valido sólo de su sinceridad y capacidad de expresar sus sentimientos para hacer canciones; además ha conseguido el reconocimiento del público de forma mayoritaria, con una rapidez que nunca antes se había visto: es la única artista debutante que ha alcanzado el doble platino en dos meses, su álbum ha permanecido meses y meses en el nº1 de las listas de ventas del año y además se ha editado ya en más de 15 países.

Dos de sus temas, "El Talismán" y "Lunas Rotas" fueron elegidas por Quentin Tarantino para la banda sonora de la película Curled.

La cantante fue premiada con dos premios Ondas 1996: artista revelación y mejor álbum (Lunas rotas). Ha colaborado con artistas como Rosario, Joaquín Sabina y Miguel Ríos.

En este volumen se recopilan sus canciones, siempre sencillas, alegres, llenas de ternura y amor.

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Utter crap

Schiller get Fritz and use it

Grandmaster Tony Miles' review said it best:

Not as I expected

Laugh out loud fun!

Unorthodox Chess Openings (Cardoza Publishing's Essential Opening Repertoire Series)
Eric Schiller
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Utter crap.......2005-12-22

The late Tony Miles, a grandmaster, once reviewed this book for a magazine. Here was his review, in its entirety.

"Utter crap". I concur wholeheartedly. This book should never have been printed. I mourn the loss of the thousands of trees that were chopped down to provide the wood pulp necessary to print this blight upon the chess world.

I cannot express in strong enough language that this book should be avoided at all costs. Real chess players do not own this book. Ask anyone in the chess community if this book should be purchased, and once their laughter dies down, you'll get a "No."

If you wish to read a real opening manual, purchase Modern Chess Openings instead of wasting your money on this.

Schiller get Fritz and use it.......2005-03-10

What this book will give you is a brief history of each opening. Like so and so played this for the first time 1872, blah, blah. Now that part of this book I liked! It's nice to have this chess history.

The part I did not like was the analysis part of this book. At least have enough moves in the analysis to match Basic Chess Openings let's say. Have Fritz come up with some new moves for you in these rare openings. It takes work, and the reader should get this at least.

I could of given this book 2 stars for the history part, but the lack of real analysis really got my goat.

Grandmaster Tony Miles' review said it best:.......2003-12-16

Miles' two-word review in Kingpin magazine of this typical Schiller book: "utter crap." (Miles was noted for unorthodox play himself, btw. For example, he famously won a game against Anatoly Karpov by responding to 1. e4 with 1... a6.)

Schiller is noted for sloppy database-dump books with lots and lots of errors. Use your chess funds for books that will teach you something valuable and are written by real players. Try authors like Silman, Nunn, Gallagher, Gligoric, Seirawan, Euwe, and Emms. All of these authors are MUCH better players and also use time and care in writing their books.

Not as I expected.......2003-06-23

When I got this book I thought it would be like another of his books I've got: Who's Afraid of the King's Gambit. It turns out that I was wrong. I like that there's so many openings and variations, but I noticed SEVERAL mistakes that sometimes made it hard to understand. I couldn't decide to rate it 3 or 4 stars, but I picked 3 because I was hoping for more diagrams. If I could I'd rate it 3 1/2 stars, but...

Laugh out loud fun!.......2003-02-15

I really enjoy this book a lot. It is definetly my favorite Eric Schiller chess book. Eric has a love of the unusual in chess. He is a member of the yahoo unorthodox chess openings group, and posts there frequently. In this book he goes into territory most Masters would rather stay clear of.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I would consider it chess "light reading" rather than something that will help you gain 400 points to your rating. I literally was laughing outloud at some of the absurd openings that are featured, and what Eric Schiller had to say about them.

I personally like to play unorthodox openings such as the grob (1. g4), even in tournament play. Most of the openings in this book are REALLY unorthodox, not just slightly off the path of main opening theroy. You could play 10 years of tournament chess and never see most of the openings that are in here.

I liked Schiller's comments on what constitues an unorthodox opening, specifically how two opening principles must be broken. For example just bringing the queen out early is not enough to be unorthodox, like the Center Counter defense. The names of some of the openings are quite fun too!

So I would recommend reading this book if you want to take a walk on the wild side, and not as something that needs to be seriously studied so that you can be prepared for the next tournament. One of Schiller's best and most original efforts!

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Very good overview of less common White openings.

Long needed and well worth the price

Deceptive Book...

The value of suprise ...

Winning Unorthodox Openings (Everyman Chess)
Angus Dunnington
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You are all geared up as Black to play a sharp main-line opening - but then White opens with some unusual first move. Every chess player knows how disconcerting this can be, and how easy it is for Black to land in trouble if he reacts incautiously. This book is the first time that a master has provided sound practical advice on how to handle both the white and the black side of these openings. Dunnington's commonsense approach to such openings as the Bird, Nimzo-Larsen, Sokolsky and Grob is based on his many years of experience of club, weekend and international chess. This book contains concise coverage of White's alternatives to 1 e4, 1 d4, 1 c4 1 Nf3. It is written by an expert on subtle flank openings and equips the reader for all key transpositions. It explains winning strategies for White and Black.

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Very good overview of less common White openings........2006-03-05

The book covers the following in some details : 1.b4, 1.b3, 1.Nc3, 1.f4 and 1.g3. The book also discussed other bizarre openings such as 1.f3, 1.g4, 1.a4, 1.h4, 1.a3, 1.h3, 1.c3, 1.d3, 1.e3 but not in details (sometimes it is just a paragraph). I really enjoyed that book because I don't like to play standard opening moves based on memory. This book is about playing opening moves that will prepare middlegame play in a different way. If you like to go straight in middlegame play, those kinds of openings will just do that. Don't expect to "win" in the opening... anyway I don't beleive that you can win in any opening... you win with good middlegames and good endgames. If you want to learn openings in great details don't buy this book.. If you think that the opening is the most important phase of a chess game... don't buy this book. But if you want to understand openings in a different way, and I mean "understand", this is a good quality book to begin with. If you want to have a very good overview (short but good) of 5 unorthodox openings this is the book for you. It does go in great details (with numerous analysis for each opening)... it will teach you how to play them and which one to choose. If you are a 1.d4 or 1.e4 fanatic this book book will not help you. But if you want to learn how to play middlegames from offbeat openings, this book will do that.

Long needed and well worth the price.......2002-11-04

This book covers all white opening moves except 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. And the coverage is not biased towards either side: quite often the author actually favours Black's position. So the book could be better called "Unusual First Moves by White - Some Good, Some Bad".

I bought this book to get a solid repertoire against openings that are so rare that they are not worth to buy a book on each of them. According to my statistics of players averaging 2200 Elo, the openings in this book occur in 2% of all games if you do not play these moves yourself (which means 4% of my games as black). So I have to meet one of these freaks once in every 50 games.

Some of the reviewers below were pretty harsh, mainly because they disagreed with Dunnington's evaluation of certain oddball openings, or because Dunnington only includes independent 1st move oddities and not all unusual opening systems. The reviews for a book of this kind are bound to be distorted because of this.

But I think that Dunnington has done a good job in giving each opening the coverage that it deserves. If you are like me - studying these openings with a view to meeting them as black - the issue of what white opening move is worth exactly what is irrelevant.

Deceptive Book..........2002-01-16

The name of this book I find to be deceptive also the claims a bit much. What bothers me is that the author decides what is playable and what is not. The Grob is one of the more popular of the odd openings. So to just dismiss that or not really cover a3 properly is wrong. Fine used to play a3 at times and did rather well with it to be honest. The move is deeper and not so easy for people to understand. I myself have played it and won with it even against a computer. I could not give this book 1 star cuz it did not really have any clear errors. I could not rate it as average because of the falty claims and taking sides. If your gonna make a book winning with unusual openings. Tossing some away as not good is a bit pointless. The problem is not having enough pages to even attempt a book like this. So if nothing else you know your gonna get a sub par product in return. I would just get game collections of weird openings and break down lines from there. If you really feel you have an interest in one of them, get a book more focused on them. The Killer Grob is a good place for some to start. Im really not a fan of any of these openings. Still Im rather open minded about odd openings and interested in the psychology. I used to always play 1 g3 which isnt that normal really. The book should not just dismiss certan things so easily. Thats a problem many have when talking about openings. They say a3 is garbage white can have no chance of maintaining advantage. Or that is just white playing as black etc and all this. The move is only bad if you do not have a plan behind it basically. Granted a3 is better than h4, that don't mean h4 can't be useful. I bet money that most esp U1800 have no set system against many odd openings. So the psychological attack behind them can't be simply blown off. A good book on this topic would give best known theory and new ideas on these openings. Then leave it to the reader what can or can not be played. By already deciding he is tainting the reader with ideas against those openings. So how can you think of winning with them if told they can't be played.

A better idea to divide them might be to have a section for very insane moves. Perhaps stuff like a4, h4, Na3 and Nh3 would fit into there. Maybe put g4 in with b4, mix g3 in with b3 stuff like that. Rather than just saying this is not playable and this is. I think you will gain more from just looking over games played with openings. If none really exist on stuff like h4 and a4, well then study tactics. Or try to play transposing into some opening where you might play one of those moves. Many times playing weird opening idea is to get out of book. So not sure how much a book can really help you play those. Stuff like g4 and b4 perhaps has more coverage. Even stuff like b3 and g3, not to mention f4. So those openings you can probably get a decent book on. Even Nc3 might have a decent book out there, or a3. I honestly can't think of any off hand though. Least there are some fair amount of games using those openings. Might be best to check this book out in bookstore before ordering. Make sure it has enough coverage on openings you might wanna play that are "weird" or "unorthodox", etc.

The value of suprise ..........2000-09-19

The book, "Winning Unorthodox Openings," is a book by an English player, IM A. Dunnington, who has a reputation as a trainer for English players who participate in the Olympiad and also an excellent trainer of junior players in the UK. He writes concisely in a no-nonsense style of which I approve. I went through the first few chapters with a fine-tooth comb. I looked for errors in analysis, and I found none. I looked for games that were quoted in error, mis-spelled, etc., and I discovered no mistakes of this type either. I went through the entire book, looking for errors in the diagrams, (this used to be a plague to otherwise good chess books!), and I found none of those type of errors either. The PC and programs like ChessBase are having a huge impact on the field of chess books. Having said that, I must immediately point out a few things that grab my attention. The blurb on the cover, and one in a press release promises, < < Complete and concise coverage of all of White's alternatives to 1. e4, 1. d4, 1. c4, and 1. Nf3. >> This is not what you get when you plunk down your hard-earned dinero. First, he classifies the "Unorthodox" openings into two categories, good and bad, (or playable and unplayable). This in itself is a sticking point in my mind. I can understand such openings as 1. h4, or a4, or h3, being branded as bad. However, I find it odd he can label 1. g4, (Grob's Opening) as bad, (beware Basmaniacs!); but can throw Solkosky's/Orangutan Opening, (1. b4,) in the "playable" pile. It seems to me that they both do the same thing, just on opposite sides of the board. I guess players of the Grob will have to get IM Basman's book on this opening. Several other VERY playable openings are dismissed with a wave of the hand. One is Anderssen's opening, (1. a3, ); which is an opening I have personally used in tournaments and never lost with. The author does not seem to realize (or bother to take the time to point out); that this can be one of the most complicated openings you can play. I also used to use it, with tremendous effect on opponents' who are "booked out to the max," but have little or no understanding of the general principles of the game. I also used to make this opening a very effective "Anti-computer" line, when computers were still being allowed to play in tournaments with humans. It can also be a highly transpositional opening and can result in a "reversed" defense being played with an extra move in hand. That being said, there is virtually no Indian game, (Or virtually any reversed defense for that matter!); where the move a3/(a6) would not have come in handy. (Common sense should tell you this.) Another point is that the author covers 1. b4, and 1. b3. However, he does not bother to cover similar/related lines like "The Improved Solkosky's," with 1. Nf3 and then - and only then - 2. b4. (Or 2. b3.) This is a shame because this method has been used by dozens of strong GM's. He also dismisses a reversed French Defense or a reversed Pirc Defense in similar fashion. (I know a Master who liked his Pirc so much, he began playing 1. d3, so he could play The Pirc as White!!) But by now, the reader should get the general idea. The author also seems to confine himself to lines of "independent value."

So exactly what does the author cover? There are five very good chapters of material. Chapter 1, covers the Solkosky's/Orangutan Opening. (1. b4.) Chapter Two covers the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack. (1. b3.) Chapter Three covers "The Dunst Opening," or as the author calls it; "The Queen's Knight Opening." (1. Nc3.) Chapter Four covers the "Bird's Opening." (1. f4.) (The From's Gambit is covered in sufficient detail, but the line 1. f4, e5; 2. fxe5, d6; 3. exd6, Bxd6; 4. Nf3, g5; 5. d4!?, g4; 6. Ng5!? [The author gives this move a dubious appellation.] 6...f5!; is probably blown off a little too lightly. [The position is very unclear and contains some of the most complicated lines in chess.] Dunnington stops here giving the impression that White is in trouble, but the fun is just beginning!) The lines recommended in the Bird's Opening are good and the theory is sound. Chapter Five covers, "The King's Fianchetto Opening." (1. g3.) This opening could transpose to an almost endless variety of other openings, but the author tries to concentrate on material that is unique and independent in nature. Chapter Six is the Chapter where the author blows off the reversed French or Pirc and perfectly reasonable openings like 1. c3. (As good or as bad as anything else in the book.) Instead, he gives minor coverage to the Grob's Opening, (1. g4.); and then wastes a lot of time on a game beginning with the move, 1. f3?

Now I think by now you may have gathered that these openings are not exactly my cup of tea. The coverage is not in great depth and could not be in a book of this size. A plus is a very detailed Index of variations. A slight minus is the absence of any Player Index whatsoever. So having said all of the above, could I recommend this book to a potential buyer? The answer is : Absolutely! In other words, if you are looking for something off the beaten trail or something unusual to surprise your opponent, then this book is for you. If you have ever thought about, or played the openings named above in a tournament, then you should get this book. If you are under 1800, were going to buy only a few books (say less than 10), and did not want to play "Main Lines;" then this would be a good book to buy. The author gives many (21) complete and very well annotated games. (I am a sucker for well-annotated games.) He also gives numerous games and lines in the notes and the sub-variations. The material is well thought out and organized very efficiently. If you like the unusual openings or were just looking for an opening to surprise your "booked-out nemesis," then this could be the book for you!

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A Pleasant Surprise

Unorthodox Openings (Macmillan Chess Library)
Joel Benjamin , and Eric Schiller
Manufacturer: Collier Books
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A Pleasant Surprise.......1998-01-02

This book is an interesting overview of openings that range from the slightly unusual (Budapest Gambit) to some of the most hilariously awful openings in existence. The book is a lot of fun, and there is a fair amount of light analysis, whose quality ranges from good to not-so-good. The authors would have been a little more charming had they saved their political commentary for some other book, but that's a minor flaw. Considering that co-author Schiller's other books are uniformly wretched, this book comes as a pleasant surprise. The only major omission is the Douchenberg Gambit (1.c4, b5!?).

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Unorthodox Chess Openings
Eric Schiller
Manufacturer: Cardoza Pub
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBT1NO

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Unorthodox Chess Openings

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Legendary trader Larry McMillan does it-again-offering his personal options strategies for consistently enhancing trading profits
Larry McMillan's name is virtually synonymous with options. This "Trader's Hall of Fame" recipient first shared his personal options strategies and techniques in the original McMillan on Options. Now, in a revised and Second Edition, this indispensable guide to the world of options addresses a myriad of new techniques and methods needed for profiting consistently in today's fast-paced investment arena. This thoroughly new Second Edition features updates in almost every chapter as well as enhanced coverage of many new and increasingly popular products. It also offers McMillan's personal philosophy on options, and reveals many of his previously unpublished personal insights. Readers will soon discover why Yale Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac says, "McMillan is an options guru par excellence."
Lawrence G. McMillan (Morristown, NJ) is President of McMillan Analysis Corporation. As the foremost authority on options, Mr. McMillan is publisher of the Option Strategist, a leading advisory newsletter for the options community, and creator of the innovative fax service "Daily Volume Alerts." He is also the author of the bestselling books Profit with Options (0-471-22531-2) and McMillan on Options (0-471-11960-1). A recipient of the Trader's Hall of Fame Award, Mr. McMillan is also a sought-after speaker and options educator, and conducts options training workshops around the country.

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Praise for McMillan On Options Second Edition "When it comes to options trading education, no one is more respected than Larry McMillan. With all the new innovations in the options arena over the past decade, this revised edition of his classic work is a must-have for ardent options traders and novices alike." ¿Price Headley President and Founder, BigTrends.com "Larry McMillan has proved once again that he is an option strategist and educator without peer. In this book, he provides an intimate look at his own personal trading philosophies. He has truly raised the bar in his update to McMillan on Options."James Bittman OIC Instructor and Author "Amazingly, Larry McMillan has outdone himself. His update of McMillan on Options not only expands the original research to include single-stock futures, LEAPS, ETFs, and volatility futures but goes beyond theory and reveals his personal strategies and new methods. McMillan¿s put-call ratio work is bar none. An absolute must-read for trader

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Interesting reading on options.......2007-06-27

This is not a textbook of option strategies and option trading. However, it makes for interesting and educative reading. If you want to learn the trade strategies in depth, I recommend the companion book by Lawrence McMillan "Options as a Strategic Investment".

A ponderous, insightful guide to options strategy, but not for everybody.......2007-06-12

I loved this book, written in a language that is easy to understand for non native speaking, like me.
A few points:

- this book is not for absolute beginners. Mr. McMillan indeed provides the basis for understanding options and the most known strategies, like spreads, strangle or similar. I would however direct the reader who is unaware of the basis to the other ponderous work of Mr. McMillan, Options as a strategic investment
- McMillan drives the willing reader to a thorough understanding of concepts/tools often misused, like volatility, put/call ratio, etc. Specifically, the third chapter is a truly inestimable (at least in my opinion) key to harness the predictive power of options.
- This is a no-hype book, if compared with the average of the sector. Mr. McMillan does not indulge or indulges only with tasteful sobriety in describing or promoting his professional services.
In conclusion:
Though if this book is not an easy reading, I would strongly urge the serious professional to read and re-read this book. It is really one of the few eye-opener books I've ever read in this domain.

Full of bright trading ideas.......2007-03-27

This book is a comprehensive guide to a lot of trading strategies, not at all limited to the use of options.

I liked the fact that the author used a lot of real life examples, that helped to understand the strategies and sometimes the mistakes you can make

McMillan on options.......2007-01-10

Very well written and illustrated book on options and how they work. A must have for any serious option trader.

Not for beginners .......2006-12-17

Some of the negative reviews sounded like they wanted a short book that said "Do the following and you will be very rich very quick". Guess what, that book doesn't exist and will never exist. Options are very useful if used properly but to use them properly you need a deep understanding of risk and the mechanics of options. These concepts are mathematical in nature and so is this book. For a variety of reasons just buying a bunch of options is a suckers game as many have learned, but used to reduce risk as a hedge is a different matter. McMillan's other book Options as a Strategic Investment would be the place to start learning. This advanced text explains many things professionals are doing and gives insight to why the markets behave as they do. If you want to get involved with options you need to understand this book thoroughly.

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